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"thou hadst suck'd wisdom from thy teat"
Proverb
Act 1,
Scene 3
Lines 67-70

A conversation between Juliet and her nurse who references the proverb "he sucked evil from the dug" but instead of sucking evil, Juliet sucked wittiness or wisdom when she was being nursed in myShakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 3.

Lady Capulet

How stands your disposition to be married?

Juliet

It is an honor that I dream not of.

Nurse

An honor! Were not I thine only nurse,
I would say thou hadst sucked wisdom from thy teat.   

When asked how she felt about being married, Juliet replied that she doesn’t dream of that honor. Because “honor” sounds a lot like “on her,” the nurse thought that Juliet was making a clever pun by saying that she doesn’t dream of having a man “on her.” The nurse then references the proverb, “he sucked evil from the dug,” which was used to describe someone who’s evil from the day he was born. The nurse says that instead of sucking evil, Juliet must have sucked wittiness (“wisdom”) when she was being nursed, except the nurse knows that this can’t be the case since hers was the only teat which Juliet sucked, and she doesn’t consider herself a witty person. Of course, the nurse is unaware how funny she actually is with all of her unintentional malapropisms.